Subject Indexing in the New "Ethnographic Bibliography of North America.".

Martin, M. Marlene

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Publication Date: 1991

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Subject Indexing in the New "Ethnographic Bibliography of North America."

Martin, M. Marlene

Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, v11 n1 p13-26 1991

Discusses problems encountered in creating a subject thesaurus for the "Ethnographic Bibliography of North America" that is adequate for both print and CD-ROM formats. Topics discussed include postcoordination versus precoordination of terms; precision and recall; natural language versus controlled vocabulary; free-text searching; and searching on electronic databases. (18 references) (LRW)

Descriptors: Databases, Ethnography, Indexes, Indexing, Online Searching, Optical Data Disks, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Search Strategies, Subject Index Terms, Thesauri, User Needs (Information), Vocabulary

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